| travel | Aspects of health and disease related to travel. It includes the physiologic and psychologic beneficial or adverse effects of travel in general or with regard to specific diseases. It includes also emporiatrics, the specialty devoted to the medical aspects of travel. It excludes study tours. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| traveler | 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc. 3. <machinery> A traveling crane. See Crane. 4. The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner. 5. An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon. <botany> Traveler's joy See Ravenala. Origin: Written also traveler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| traveler's diarrhoea | <gastroenterology> A form of gastroenteritis that is through travel to developing countries. most often caused by a toxigenic E. Coli bacteria. Other causative agents include: Shigella, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Rotavirus, Giardia and amoebas. Symptoms include diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain and anorexia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| traveling grate | A type of furnace in which assembled links of grates are joined together in a perpetual belt arrangement. Fuel is fed in at one end and ash is discharged at the other. (05 Dec 1998) |